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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Notes from Microsoft Ignite What's New for IT Professionals in SharePoint Server 2016

Microsoft Ignite is proving to be an exciting conference with new technologies and announcements about how Microsoft is evolving their technology stack to help us collaborate in new and better ways. I'm at the conference attending sessions on security, data protection, migration and other topics and want to share my notes so that they may be a resource to others as well.
Presented: Wednesday May 6, 2015
Presenters: Bill Baer

Management Perspective

Converged Code Base - took a point in time snapshot of SharePoint Online build and made that their SharePoint 2016 offering

Requires Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 10 at minimum

Requires Windows SQL Server 2014 minimum

SharePoint will continue to be supported App Fabric, regardless of end of support by other teams

Installation change - standalone installs no longer support built in database engine; must install database separately

Upgrade from SharePoint 2010 requires double hop: upgrade to SP 2013 and then upgrade to SP 2016 - no direct upgrade from SP2010 to SP2016

Going forward, SharePoint 2013 is the genesis block for all future versions

Effective parity from a schema perspective

Service app architecture is not changing from SharePoint 2013

Many of same services are available

Service that did not exist in SPO (ex. performance point services) were back-ported to SP 2016

Any site collections in SP 2013 that are running in SP 2010 mode, must first be upgraded to SP 2013 mode

Migration processes

Can do a database attach upgrade

Can do data migration as usual

SP 2016 normalizes authentication on OAuth and SAML with WSFed - SAML authentication is a first class citizen

Only 1 authentication provider exists now - authentication is now cloud ready

Has BI implications because in past rest of stack did not support CBA

What about Windows identity over SAML claims - still supported

Older identity models are supported

Moving forward they are moving away from domain authentication

SMTP connection encryption supported - not relegated to only port 25

There is no fall back if encryption fails or is not available

Configurable through central admin

Performance and Reliability

- Roles in SP 2013 were defined primarily by documentation (all binaries laid down and deployed; defined the role by enabling services and creating service applications)

Hybrid investments allows you to leverage the compliance center and online features for on-premise content in hybrid scenarios

Services like item level encryption/RMS, compliance center...

DEMO: Delve supports both online and on premise content with the unified index in hybrid scenarios

- Extranet

Site publishing

Publish internal sites to internet

Leverages O365 identity federation services

- Team Sites - hybrid team sites

- Hybrid deployment automation - Scenario Picker

Enables scenario selection - search, one drive for business

Automated configuration and prerequisites and core infrastructure

UI based configuration

Summary

SharePoint 2016 is a comprehensive solution for connected information work that preserves structure processes, compliance, IT investment optimized for the way people work through an easily managed and integrated platform.

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Antonio Maio is an information security architect with over 25 years of experience in cyber security practices and systems, product management, software development and leadership. Antonio is currently a Senior Manager and Senior SharePoint Architect with Protiviti. He has been awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for 5 consecutive years, from 2012 to 2016, specializing in Microsoft SharePoint Server, Office 365 and Office Services. His background includes implementing cryptography and PKI systems, information security technologies, and both information governance and cybersecurity best practices. His experience with Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 extends over the last 10 years. When he’s not helping enterprise, military or government organizations solve security challenges, you can catch him speaking at conferences or contributing to the community through this blog. In his spare time, Antonio likes to oil paint, run, make wine, read and spend time with his family.